2015 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: July 27-31, 2015

Exoplanetary System Demographics: Theory and Observations

Agenda

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POP presentation schedule

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Sunday, July 26

• Registration Gathering at Beckman Institute Courtyard, Caltech

• 4-6 pm: Please join us in the courtyard outside the Beckman Institute for the opportunity to register, greet colleagues, and put up your poster in advance of the workshop. We'll have light munchies available but you'll want to get dinner afterwards.

Monday, July 27

• Introductions

• 8:30 am: Welcome and Opening Comments — Dawn Gelino (NExScI)
• 8:45 am: Introduction to the Exoplanet Exploration Program — Gary Blackwood (JPL)
• 9:00 am: Setting the Stage — Scott Gaudi (Ohio State)
• 9:55 am: Attendee Pops (7)
10:10 am: Morning Break

• Basic Physics of Planet Formation

• 10:40 am: Initial Conditions for Planet Formation: Disk Observations — Jenny Patience (Arizona State Univ.)
• 11:20 am: Disk Formation and Evolution — Richard Nelson (UCL)
• 12:00 pm: Lunch
• 1:00 pm: Formation of Planetesimals and Large Cores — Andrew Youdin (Univ. of Arizona)
• 1:40 pm: Gas Accretion, Gap Formation, and Orbital Migration — Richard Nelson (UCL)
• 2:20 pm: Introduction to Hands-on Sessions and Group Projects — Christoph Mordasini (MPIA) and Geoff Bryden (JPL)
• 2:30 pm: Attendee Pops (10)
• 3:00 pm: Afternoon Break
• 3:30 pm: Hands-on Session: Planet Gas Evolution — Christoph Mordasini (MPIA)
• 5:30 pm: Adjourn

Tuesday, July 28

• Planet Formation Models

• 8:30 am: The Core Accretion Scenario — Doug Lin (UCSC)
• 9:30 am: Formation of Giant Planets by Gravitational Instability — Kaitlin Kratter (Univ. of Arizona)
• 10:10 am: Morning Break and Workshop Picture
• 10:40 am: Terrestrial Planet Formation — Hal Levison (SWRI)
• 11:20 am: Orbital Evolution — Smadar Noaz (UCLA)
• 12:00 pm: Lunch

Population Synthesis

• 1:30 pm: Population Synthesis Models (Core Accretion) — Christoph Mordasini (MPIA)
• 2:30 pm: Planet Formation in the Outer Disk (Gravitational Instability) — Kaitlin Kratter (Univ. of Arizona)
• 3:00 pm: Afternoon Break
• 3:30 pm: Hands-on Session: Population Synthesis — Christoph Mordasini (MPIA)
• 5:30 pm: Adjourn

Wednesday, July 29

• Detection Methods and Their Selection Effects

• 8:30 am: Radial Velocity Surveys — Xavier Dumusque (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
• 9:30 am: Attendee Pops (8)
• 10:00 am: Morning Break and Poster Session #1
• 11:00 am: Transit Surveys — Courtney Dressing (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/Caltech)
• 12:00 pm: Lunch
• 1:00 pm: Microlensing Surveys — Matthew Penny (Ohio State University)
• 1:40 pm: Direct Imaging Surveys — Beth Biller (Univ. of Edinburgh)
• 2:20 pm: Attendee Pops (7)
• 2:35 pm: Afternoon Break
• 3:05 pm: Hands-on Session: Comparison Against Observations - Geoff Bryden (JPL)
• 5:00 pm: Adjourn

Thursday, July 30

• Planet Detection Statistics

• 8:30 am: Planet Frequency from Radial Velocity Observations — Xavier Dumusque (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
• 9:10 am: Planet Frequency from Transits — Jessie Christiansen (NExScI/IPAC)
• 9:50 am: Attendee Pops (7)
• 10:05 am: Morning Break and Poster Session #2
• 11:05 am: Synthesis of Multiple Observing Methods — Eric Gaidos (Univ. of Hawaii)
• 11:45 am: Synthesizing Results from Microlensing, Radial Velocity, and Direct Imaging Surveys — Christian Clanton (Ohio State Univ.)
• 12:00 pm: Lunch

• Group Project Work

• 1:30 pm: Group Project Work
• 5:00 pm: Adjourn
• 7:00 pm: Workshop Banquet

Friday, July 31

• Completing the Census

• 8:30 am: GAIA — Avi Shporer (JPL)
• 9:00 am: PLATO — Malcolm Fridlund (Univ. of Leiden)
• 9:40 am: Morning Break
• 10:10 am: Extreme RV: the Nearest Habitable-Zone Earths — Debra Fischer (Yale)
• 10:50 am: What's Missing: Observation and Theory — Doug Lin (UCSC)
• 11:30 pm: Lunch

• Characterization

• 12:30 pm: Steps Towards Characterizing Planets — Heather Knutson (Caltech)
• 1:00 pm: Direct spectroscopic characterization: Jupiters to Earths — Vikki Meadows (Univ. of Washington)
• 1:30 pm: Group Project Presentations
• Understanding Planet Formation: Initial Disk Distribution
• Gas Accretion in Planets
• Studying the Uniqueness of Disk Lifetimes for Exosystems
• Metallicity Assessment Quantifying Exoplanet Embryonic Numbers
• Jovian Planet Migration
• The Effects of Gas Accretion on Planet Formation
• Planet Demographics as a Function of Initial Disc Mass
• 3:30 pm: Survey and Closing Comments
• 4:00 pm: Adjourn

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